Oster 2-Slice Toaster - Stainless Steel

Comment: I don't ask much from a toaster. Mostly, I want to be able to put bread in it, and then have this bread emerge at some point in the not too distant future as toast.

This machine doesn't do that. At any setting below the maximum, what it produces is more akin to stale bread than to what I'd call toast.

Turn it up to the highest setting, and one side of the bread comes out reasonably, if unevenly, toasted, in a way that reminds me of the tan on my wife's feet after a summer of wearing sandals with straps in unexpected places.

The other side is quite charred.

Not really what I was going for.

Comment: I apparently live in a parallel universe, where my Oster toaster has been working exactly as promised for the last three years. How else to explain everyone else's bad experiences with this toaster? While I think we can all agree that it's a very handsome toaster, no one else seems to agree that it does a darn fine job making toast. I've had no problems with this toaster these last couple of years. Zero, zilch, nada, none. I eat frozen waffles for breakfast at least a few mornings each week, and every day, day after day, this little silver box heats those waffles up perfectly. Bread comes out looking like well-toasted bread should. Everything about this toaster has been great. I only wish everyone else who'd bought this toaster could move to my parallel universe and enjoy it as much as I have.

Comment: it's our second one of the same kind. the first one lasted for over a year. one day, i heard a pop and saw a spark in the "slot" area. that was the end of it.

i bought the same one - a few weeks ago since i like the look and size of it in our kitchen counter. so, if i have a bigger item to heat up or toast i just use the oven. otherwise, it does it's job. for people who want their toasts even; this toaster is not the one you are looking for. i guess, the maker/manufacturer can rethink the lifetime and the even/consistent toasting.

Comment: I had this toaster for 4 years, and it worked great until one day it up and died. Reading the other reviews, I guess I was lucky my lasted as long as it did! Too bad! It's the perfect size and looks great with my other stainless appliances. But based on its bad track record, I guess I won't be buying another one to replace it.

Comment: I though I had just gotten a lemon until I read all the reviews. This toaster was a xmas gift to replace our "ugly toaster" that worked fine. The taoster worked for, I mean attempted to work when I pulled it out of the box. It was very unconsistant and would burn toast on the light setting and not cook on the max setting. The final straw was when the various buttons quit working a mere 1 week after getting it. I took it outside and smashed it to pieces I was so mad. I tried 0 stars because that is what this product deserved, but amazon would not let me.